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Comment Re:Read the Scott Meyers Effective C++ books (Score 1) 757

And especially watch Mr. Meyers's talk "The Last Thing D Needs" (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D48kP_Ssg2eY). tl;dw version: The last thing D needs is to require someone like Scott Meyers; don't make D so perversely convoluted that one can make a living explaining it to people.

Comment Re:Sure, why not (Score 1) 430

C++ has made the same choice over and over again: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

"And [Stroustrup] said “no” to no one. He put every feature in that language that ever existed. It wasn’t cleanly designed—it was just the union of everything that came along." --Ken Thompson

Comment Eight(?) weeks of lecture and hands on in BASIC (Score 1) 623

A teacher whose name I've forgotten but to whom I am very much indebted suggested that I go to a series of lectures and hands-on sessions at the University of Oklahoma in the spring of 1971. I was in tenth grade.

On Saturdays we were guided through BASIC and the fundamentals of numerical analysis by Professor Richard Vernon Andree, and one evening a week we could sit at one of four ASR-33 Teletypes connected to a Data General Supernova running a time-shared BASIC. It changed my life. In my junior year, not having access to a computer, I wrote programs in a notebook, which I wish I still had. As a senior I took vo-tech and learned about unit record machines, the RCA 301, and then RPG on an IBM 370. I never looked back.

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